PART 12

Scene:

Alli has been pestering Terry this whole time. He has now stopped at the bottom of the main stairway. He’s exasperated and annoyed. She’s as perky as ever. God she needs to lay off the sugar.. 

Allison: C’mon Terry… please? 

Terry: No! 

Allison: Just one time! Come on! I mean it’s not like you do anything now. 

Terry: I said no. 

Allison: (steps in front of Terry and gives off her innocent *ha* and pouty look) Pretty please? If it doesn’t work I’ll stop bugging you. At least about that. You’ll just be bonked down from stalker worthy to annoy worthy. 

Terry: (groans in defeat) I give up. I’ll take you out. 

Allison: (Lets out a triumphant shout) YES! A real date right? 

Terry: Yeah. Fine. 

(Stealth and Buffy wander in) 

Stealth: What was that shout? 

Allison: (Giggles) I got Terry to agree to take me on a date. 

Buffy: Um.. Aren’t you a bit young for him? 

Allison: Doesn’t matter. I expect you to be ready to go at 7 tonight Terry. (She skips away whistling happily)  I’ll be in the Training Hall’s control room setting up. Ciao! 

Terry: (moans) Oh god what have done? 

Buffy: (pats Terry on the back in sympathy) You made a deal with the devil. 

Stealth: What is this training hall everyone keeps mentioning? 

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Interlude

????: You know what to do? 

????: Of course. 

????: On my signal. Do NOT screw this up. 

????: I won’t. 

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Scene:

Ahh yes… It’s time. The Buffy and the gang are in the control room for the Training Hall.  Caitlyn is sitting at the controls her self with Quinn in the seat next to her. She’s explaining what it all does. Stealth is behind them listening intently. Everyone else is sitting in make shift seats Alli made. (Hey, there are only a couple of seats in there… Yuki got mad when she got a low score.. and.. shutting up now..) 

Stealth: Any one can use this? 

Caitlyn: Mhm. You’re supposed to have some one in here at all times though. 

Xander: When Alli brought us in here, no one was here. 

Caitlyn: I heard about that. (Glares)  One word. Remember it well. Supervision. 

Buffy: Yes Ma’am. 

Xander: Hey.. where’s Anya? 

Bobby: (His mouth full) Fgjhfrf msmmg? 

Xander: What? 

Bobby: (swallows) I said, does it matter? 

Xander: I was just ask.. hey.. (His eyes grow wide as he sees what’s in Bobby’s hand) MY TWINKIES!!! (He gets ready to attack Iceman when Buffy stops him) 

Buffy: (points out to the hall itself. *they happen to be watching through a window thingamabob. lol*) There they are. 

(Ares is standing in the middle of the hall when Silia enters. The god is wearing his typical black leather. *Does he wear anything else?* Silia is wearing a purple, spandex, super-hero thing with a bit of ninja type flare. She faces Ares with a look of disdain.) 

Silia: Ares. 

Ares: Get ready for the beating of a lifetime, girl. 

(The Training Hall changes from an empty metallic room into a large battlefield. Skeletons wearing greek and roman armor are strewn about) 

Silia: Like the scenario? It’s the same battlefield where Pompeii and Caesar’s armies destroyed each other. 

Ares: (reminiscent) Ahh… what a glorious battle that was. (Focus on Silia) Time to die. 

(Silia merely nods and draws her katana from thin air. Ares unsheathes his blade and runs toward her with a sword thrust. Silia parries it and ducks the god’s oncoming punch. Moving quickly she rises and connects to Ares’ chest with a roundhouse kick. As he stumbles away, Silia leaps back a few paces and thrusts her katana into the ground. She closes her eyes and begins to chant, her hands writing arcane symbols in the air. Ares watches her carefully before throwing a fireball.) 

(The fireball is deflected by an invisible barrier, and hits a nearby boulder harmlessly. Ares curses in annoyance as Silia’s eyes open and she shouts.) 

Silia: Isheen, Sovereign of the Night, come forth! 

(The earth begins to tremor causing Ares to stumble. The ground is split open and a scantily clad demoness flies from the rift. Isheen’s skin shone a dark blue the color of a clear night sky. Her hair, a shockingly bright white, trailed behind her as wisps of electricity weaved through the strands. She rose her hand and an evil smirk stretched across her lips.) 

Ares: Oh sh.. 

(Ares was rudely interrupted by an extraordinary blast of fire and lightning from the demoness.  The blast rips through the ground up heaving the soil and knocking Ares into a fallen tree nearby. Bones and steel fly about, narrowly missing the god of war’s head.) 

Allison: (from the control room) GO, SIL, GO! 

Caitlyn: Shred him good!! 

(As the smoke and dust cleared, Isheen vanished. Ares rises to his feet slowly. He stares at Silia, who has begun to chant again.) 

Ares: (Shouting) NOW! 

(A sudden blast of energy comes from nowhere and hit’s Silia’s barrier. Her eyes snap open and she stops chanting as she is struck down. She gets to her knees and sees Anya standing there armed to the teeth in one of Caitlyn’s suits.) 

Ares: You just said no holding back. (Chuckles) You never said anything about not recruiting allies. 

Silia: It was implied. (Her voice steady) But you’re right, I didn’t. (She disappears) 

Ares: (his eyes wide) Where did she go? 

Anya: (worried) I don’t know! This suit is confusing! 

Silia: I’ve had enough out of the both of you. 

(They look up to see Silia floating high above them. An aura of power radiates from her.) 

Silia: (Glaring) Say bye Anya. 

Anya: (confused) What? 

(Silia snaps her fingers and Anya is enveloped by purple flames. The flames die down, and the armor falls to the ground an empty husk.) 

Ares: (claps) You obliterated her. Very nice. I didn’t think you’d have it in you. 

Silia: (Stares at Ares) I didn’t kill her. I sent her home. (She glares at the god and a small glowing orb appears in her hand.) 

Ares: What.. are you doing? 

(The sorceress ignores him and concentrates. Bright, silvery light swarms around Ares. The light flashes and everyone in the control booth cover their eyes. When the light retreats, Silia is standing in the middle of the Training Hall, the scenario ended. In her hand is a crystal orb.) 

Silia: (grins and shakes the ball) Like your new home Ares? 

Ares: (pounding on the glass) Let me out! You can’t do this to me! I’m.. 

Silia: (rolls her eyes and tosses the orb over her shoulder. It vanishes before it can hit the ground) A god. Blah blah blah. (She turns her gaze to the audience) Who’s hungry?

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Scene: 

The kitchen. Silia is staring at the mess and her face is blank. The gang is standing at the doorway in fear.

Silia: (calmly) Who.. did this? 

(Everyone steps back and leaves Bobby and Jubilee standing there.) 

Bobby: (sarcastically) Gee thanks for the back up.

Terry: I’m not going down with you. 

Allison: Me neither. I have a date. (A groan from Terry is heard) 

Xander: Bet you wish you hadn’t stolen my Twinkies now. 

Jubilee: We are so dead. 

Silia: (faces the messy mutants) Jubilation Lee. As of now, you are grounded and confined to this house. You are not allowed anywhere near the rec room, pool, or anything fun. In other words for the next to weeks, your best friend in the passing of time are books. You will also be at Xander’s beck and call for the Twinkie theft. 

Xander: My own personal slave… (Grins) 

Bobby: (snickers) Ha. You’re doomed, Lee. At least I get to leave. 

Silia: As for you Mr. Drake, consider yourself trapped.

Bobby: What? (A look of fear crosses his face) Oh no.. 

(Silia chants a few words a tosses a bit of diamond dust at Bobby. *Don’t ask where she got it. She has this stuff with her at all times. I won’t get into it here.* The dust settles on him before disappearing.) 

Silia: Now you’re magically trapped for two weeks. So guess what frosty, your new job is to be Cat’s guinea pig. 

Caitlyn: (Ecstatic) Whoohoo!! 

Bobby: (groans) Oh god… 

Silia: Now I want the two of you to clean this mess up. I want this kitchen spotless. Got it? 

Bobby & Jubilee: (in unison) Yes, ma’am. 

Silia: (Turns to everyone else a huge grin on her face) Come, come! The rest of us will go out. I’ll pay. 

(Silia leaves and everyone follows. Jubilee and Bobby are left standing in the kitchen.) 

Bobby: I’m in hell. 

Jubilee: (hands Bobby a broom) Shut up and start sweeping.

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Scene:

Later that night. The living room. Xander and Buffy are arguing on what to watch. 

Xander: We are not watching a beauty pageant. 

Buffy: Well we aren’t watching wrestling either. 

Xander: You always get your way. 

Buffy: No I don’t. 

Xander: Yes you do. When I wanted to watch Star Trek, you forced me to watch Dawson’s Creek. 

Buffy: I thought you liked Dawson’s Creek.

Xander: I hate that show. It’s predictable. They use big words to make up for the lack of action in their lives. 

Buffy: (sighs) Fine. We’ll compromise. We’ll watch that Kids in the Hall marathon. 

Xander: Good call. 

(The two watch in silence. As the commercials start up, Buffy turns to him.) 

Buffy: Are you upset about Anya? 

Xander: You know.. I thought I would be. But I’m not. Weird huh? 

Buffy: Not really. I mean it’s not like you were in love with her.

Xander: How do you know? 

Buffy: I’d know. 

Xander: Okay, I wasn’t. Never have been. But I still care. 

Buffy: Of course you do. If you didn’t care you wouldn’t be Xander. 

(The slayer and slayerette are interrupted by Terry entering the room. He’s all dressed up and still clueless about where he’s going.) 

Buffy: Looking good, Terry. 

Terry: Thanks. I’m going to regret this.. 

Xander: You already do though. 

Terry: (groans and slumps in to a chair) How did I get into this? 

Allison: You’re a wimp, Terry. That’s how. 

(The group stares at Alli in shock. Instead of the 14-year-old looking girl they know, a young woman stands there. Wearing a black cocktail dress and her hair free and flowing from her normal pigtails, Alli grins.) 

Allison: (spins) Tada. I clean up nice don’t I? 

Terry: (nods meekly) Uh..huh. I didn’t.. expect that. 

Allison: What? You didn’t think I’d go out with you as a 14 year old did you? Sheesh. 

Xander: Um..since when.. 

Allison: (breezily) Since always. This is what I really look like. (turns to Terry) Let’s go, batty. 

(Alli leads Terry out, and Xander and Buffy are left in the living room.) 

Buffy: Are we out of the loop here? 

Xander: Does it matter?

Get me away from here before I go insane!